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abderites
n. (plural of Abderite English)
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Abderites
Abderites or Abderite may refer to:
- People associated with the ancient city of Abdera, Thrace
- Adherents of the philosophical school of Abdera
- Abderite, a reference to Democritus, native of Abdera; later acquired the generic meaning of "scoffer"
- Abderites, archetypical fools in classical Greece, akin of the Wise Men of Gotham
- The satirical book Die Abderiten, eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte by Christoph Martin Wieland
Usage examples of "abderites".
The senate regarded this as a disgraceful proceeding and they made the same decree in the case of the Abderites that they had made the previous year in the case of the Coronaeans, with instructions to the praetor to announce the decree to the Assembly.
Sempronius Blaesus and Sextius Julius Caesar, were sent to restore the Abderites to freedom, and to inform Hostilius and Hortensius that the senate considered the attack upon Abdera as utterly unjustifiable, and demanded that search should be made for all who were enslaved in order that they might be set free.